My daughter's dorm in Marion (along with 5 other campus buildings) were still without power as of 5:00pm last night.. Fortunately they have generators.
Don't get me wrong.....there's value in knowing the mean, but to view that as the sole arbiter of 'normal' would be problematic. If you did, very few days would be "normal". The vast majority would be either above or below.
Wild applause for using a median and not just a mean. That provides so much more context to what's being depicted.
Now if we can start using SD, people will stop thinking that "normal" and "average" are the same thing.......